Broom vs. Pool Cue!

A man armed with a butcher knife and a broken pool cue robbed a Marathon gas station on Indianapolis' Southeastside early today, according to a police report.

The man entered the gas station at 8404 Southeastern Avenue just after midnight carrying half a pool cue and demanded money, the clerk told police. The man then moved behind the counter and emptied the cash register, taking $165, the police report said.

The clerk, who had been sweeping the floor, told police he ran toward the counter and began striking the man with the broom.

The clerk then locked the store's front door and he and the man began fighting with the broom and pool cue, the report said. The clerk told police he grabbed a butcher knife he saw in the man's sweatshirt and hid it behind the counter.

The man then broke through the locked door and got into a vehicle outside, fleeing north on Franklin Road, the clerk told police.

I remember a story that Mike "DogZilla" Tibbits from the Dog Brothers told us about that occured between two inmates. One guy was mopping the floor while he was attacked, instead of flipping the broom over he stomped on the mop end and broke it off which created a jagged end. He then used it to defend himself, he thrusted the jagged end towards the face of his attacker and it went through his mouth and out his cheek or something like that pretty close to that. Guro Crafty also mentions the story in their staff DVD.